Yes you can do this. what you need to do is use either the scheduled task function or the another queuing system, such as celery. The web2py scheduler works well for most scenarios. The flow will go something like this:-
1. User access the front end app and request a scheduled action or long running action. 2. The controller of the front end app creates a scheduled task (this contains a function name and parameters to be passed to that function) 3. Scheduled task is created in the shared database. 4. A worker task on your back-end server see there is an action to be performed and picks up the task and executes it with the parameters stored. 5. Scheduled task is marked as complete or failed With this approach you can have one code base deployed on all servers, the function will be denoted by whether you configure a web server to accept requests and send to web2py, or start a worker process to look for background jobs. Also be aware you can run multiple worker processes on each server. This is a pretty common pattern for async processing of tasks. I would recommend you read the scheduled tasks section of the web2py book. Thanks, Stuart On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 12:00:22 PM UTC-7, bria...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can I run 2 instances of web2py of the same application, with 1 instance > process the Business Logic (controller) while the other instance doing the > User Interface (View)? What I'm trying to achieve here is to separate the > API and UI by hosting them on separate server, to allow me to scale them > separately, and may be add a bit more security as well. I understand that > the standard way to do this is to turn one instance into a full service > API, while the other instance handles the UI, but they must run as separate > application. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
